consumption

SEI’s Daniel Duma in Nature: Fossil fuel companies earn massive profits while ‘production must decline immediately’

Media coverage / SEI Research Fellow Daniel Duma talks to Nature about surging oil and gas profits while countries fail to invest in carbon-cutting pledges.

Circular procurement lessons to be included in Estonian strategies

Feature / Estonia has developed three strategic documents, incorporating expertise from SEI Tallinn and the CircPro project, to advance circular procurement principles.

Water-energy nexus analysis in an urban water supply system based on a water evaluation and planning model

Journal article / The key research question in this study is whether water-scarce megacities are consuming energy to conserve local water resources.

“Everyone’s chasing removals”: SEI’s Derik Broekhoff comments on emissions reduction vs. removals in the carbon market

Media coverage / Senior Scientist Derik Broekhoff spoke to the climate news outlet Heatmap on the tension between carbon removals and emissions in the voluntary carbon market.

SEI’s Michael Lazarus to New York Times: US faces ‘contradiction’ between fossil fuel extraction and climate goals

Media coverage / The Biden Administration disappointed climate activists by approving the Willow oil and gas project in Alaska. But that isn't the half of it.

Climate-neutral cities in Sweden: true commitment or hollow statements?

Journal article / This paper presents a conceptual framework that allows evaluation of the cornerstones of climate neutrality for cities from a consumption-based perspective.

A water-resilient economy: hydro-macroeconomic and climate change analysis in Rwanda

SEI brief / SEI experts analyse how water efficiency and storage methods can help Rwanda meet its sustainable development and economic growth goals.

SEI’s Rob Bailis talks to Global Dispatches podcast about new research on cleaner cooking for the climate

Media coverage / Perhaps counterintuitively, some fossil-based cooking fuels are better for climate and health than the biomass fuels used by 2.4 billion people, research shows.

From talk to action: 3 priorities for a water-secure future

Perspective / A diverse array of leaders will gather in a rare UN water conference. SEI experts suggest three ways to foster a more water-resilient world.